Nisa'at Melkham

Nisa'at Melkham (1985-) was a Palestinian terrorist with links to the Islamic State.

Biography
Nisa'at Melkham was born in 1985 in Wadi Ara, Israel, a town not far from the Green Line dividing Israel from the West Bank. Melkham worked as a taxi driver, and he was nonreligious; however, he was problematic and depressed, and in 2007 he was arrested for attacking an Israel Defense Forces soldier with a screwdriver to avenge his cousin's death and to steal and sell his gun. On 1 January 2016 he stole his father's Spectre M4 submachine gun and opened fire on several shops on Dizengoff Street in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, having send out a message on Twitter a day earlier saying that the Islamic State would attack Tel Aviv. He killed 2 people and injured 7 before fleeing, and a massive manhunt ensued.